Motor-vehicle holddown



May 20, 1930. w cbo V 1,759,733

MOTOR VEHICLE HOLDDOWN 'Fild ma 28, 1929 WITNESSE; I I BY ATTORNEY ings. Y

' I With the precedingand other objects and as engaged with one of the end walls of the Patented May 20, 1930 I UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE I WILLIAM. B. coox, oIMExIco, MI'ss'oUnI Mo'roR-vEIIIcLE IIo mDowN Application filed May-28, 1929. Serial mam-'21.

My invention relates to holddowns for 1110- tor vehicles commonly employed to hold automobiles or other vehicles against rolling while in transit. V v

- An object of the present invention is to provide a device of this character which is constructed from lengths of rod bent to provide an axle engaging member, and fastening de- -vices at the ends thereof for penetrating'the floor or wall of a freight carto anchor the holddownin place. i i Another objectv of the invention is to provide a device of this character wherein the anchoring devices are attached to the axle embracing member without the use of fastenadvantages in mind, the invention consists in the novel'combination of elements, constructions and arrangements of parts and operations to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 1s aview of a freight car partly brokenaway and illustratingthe device engaged with the front and rear axles of a motor vehicle, one of the devices being shown I freight car; andstantially V-shaped axle-embracing member Fig. 2 1s a perspective of ,the'invention. I Referring to the invention in detail a sub- 5 formed from a single length of ,rodof requisite ruggedness is provided. The free ends of the axle embracing. member are bent at right angles toprovide divergent barbs 6.

free end of the axle embra'cing member which consists of'a lengthof rod bent to, provide divergent arms 10 connected by a loop or eye 11. The free endsofj-thearms 10 arebent at right angles to provide barbs 15.

To pivotally connect'the fastening devices to the axle embracing member the le s of the latter are looped upon themselves adjacent An anchoring device is provided for each their free ends to provide eyes 16 which pass through the eyes 11 of each of the fastening devices. In use the axle embracing member is engaged with the axle of the automobile or other vehicleand the barbs 15 and 16 driven into the floor or end wall of the freight car as disclosed in Fig. 1. It will be observed that the barbs 6 will lie parallel with the barbs 15 of each of the fastening devices,

Thus a three point anchorage is had at each 1 side of the vehicle axle. Moreover by having the anchoring devices pivoted to the axle embracing memberthey may be readily swung to a position where the barbs may be driven into place. Furthermore the device is wholly f constructed from three lengths of rod which are. connected together without the use of fastening elements other than the inter-engagement of the eyes 16 and 11.

What is claimed is: 1. A holddown device for vehicles comprising a substantially V-shaped axle engaging.

member each leg of which being provided I with an eye, and-a length of rod-engaged f with each eye and having its end fashioned with anchoring barbs. V V V 2. In a holddown device, an inverted sub? stantially V-shaped axle embracing member,

, each leg of which being provided with an eye adjacent, its. lower end, and a length of; rod L looped in each eye and terminating in anchoring barbs.

3. In a'holddown device, an axleembraclooped in'each eye and having'its' end bent at right angles to provide anchoring barbs.

4:. Ina device .of the character'described,i

a length of rodbent into'substantial V-shape and, each leg of which'beingbent at right, I

angles towards each other to provide an'c'horing barbs, a substantially V-shaped member attached to each leg adjacent each barb and ing member consisting of a length of rod 189 bent to provide two divergent legs, eachjof which terminating in an eye, a length of d.

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